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African Union chairperson Alpha Conde on Sunday put himself forward as a mediator in the crisis between Qatar and other Gulf countries, urging dialogue after several African nations also recalled their ambassadors to Doha . "So far five planes carrying vegetables have been sent to Qatar, each carrying around 90 tonnes of cargo, while another plane will be sent today", Iran Air spokesperson Shahrokh Noushabadi told AFP on Sunday.

Tusk said the March 2019 deadline "leaves us with no time to lose". Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the European Commission, said he wanted discussions to proceed without delay, while Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator for Brexit, said "negotiations should start when United Kingdom is ready".

Times that "the LGBTQ community is lending our iconic rainbow flag to anyone who feels like their rights are under threat and to anyone who feels like America's strength is its diversity". The Los Angeles pride parade was renamed the ResistMarch, and tens of thousands turned out in Hollywood, some carrying rainbow flags or signs reading "Love Trumps Hate".

President Donald Trump aimed a Sunday tweet at ousted FBI Director James Comey , calling him a " cowardly " leaker , as fired Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara recounted what he saw as parallels between his contacts with Trump and those Comey testified about on Thursday.

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and JDU senior leader Sharad Yadav among others had to be taken into preventive custody, since they had been denied permission to visit Mandsaur . He also thanked his supporters who accompanied him at Bhopal's Dussehra Maidan. "But we have to pay our employees and workers", said Bablu Agarwal, a trader.

He said that he had carefully documented his interactions with Mr Trump because he anxious the president would misrepresent them, and accused the administration of spreading "lies, plain and simple" about the reasons for his firing. And, "You're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer". The president instead allowed surrogates to respond on Thursday, including his son, Donald Trump Jr., who posted dozens of tweets to his own account mocking Comey .

The occasion turned a show of unity in BJP with senior party leaders, both loyalists and dissidents, seen congratulating him for breaking his 28-hour-long fast, even as state women and child development minister Maya Singh offered a glass of coconut water to Mr Chouhan's wife to end her fast.

Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the European Commission, said he wanted discussions to proceed without delay, while Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator for Brexit, said "negotiations should start when United Kingdom is ready". "It would probably force the government away from the hard Brexit goals laid out during the campaign and the very confrontational line the prime minister has taken throughout".

He gave out Halloween candy to children and taught them how to play Ping-Pong. Neighbors described Butt as an avid weightlifter and Transport for London confirmed he worked for London Underground in customer service before leaving last October.

Her Conservatives struck an outline deal with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) for support on key legislation. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she assumed Britain still wanted to leave the European Union and that talks must start quickly.

TRUMP JR.: The dates seem very confusing to me, based on what I saw in The New York Times and based on his claim that it was because of a tweet from my father the day after? The White House has refused to confirm or deny the existence of any tapes or recordings, and Trump hinted at a press conference in the Rose Garden on Friday that there actually aren't any recordings of his meetings and phone calls with Comey .

Chouhan went on the fast in a bid to restore peace in the state which recently witnessed turbulence because of the violent protest staged by the farmers demanding better prices for their produce and also a waiver on loan repayments. Swaminathan Committee recommendations. Reports say Home Minister Bhupendra Singh had initially issued a strong denial about police's involvement, but confirmed it later.

We are being joined by business leaders, governors, university presidents and millions of citizens across the United States to pledge " We Are Still In " - and we will achieve and exceed America's commitment to the Paris Agreement . As for the Paris Climate Accord, 196 different countries agreed to adopt green energy sources, cut down on emissions and limit the spike in global temperatures.

It began in the downtown area of Washington, DC, and then passed in front of the White House and continued on to the National Mall. "And that's the kind of city that we seek to become". "Hate and intolerance still exist". "This year, the LGBTQ community is lending our iconic rainbow flag to anyone who feels like their rights are under threat and to anyone who feels like America's strength is its diversity", march organiser Brian Pendleton told The Los Angeles Times.

With the release of this police dashcam video of his arrest sure to haunt him years to come, how will Tiger come back from this one? Woods blew a 0.0 on a breath test for alcohol. Earlier reports of his arrest said that he told officers at one point he thought he was in Los Angeles, but he does not say that in either of the video recordings published by TMZ .

Meanwhile, Iran has announced that it has sent tonnes of vegetables to Qatar , which has seen food imports threatened after its neighbours cut air, sea and land links with the country. 12: Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has thanked his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for Moscow's offer of food supplies, as the Saudi Arabia led move to blockade Qatar has led to food shortages and stockpiling.

The U.S. government blasted a long-distance warhead out of the sky on Tuesday - and now there's stunning new proof. U.S. national intelligence director Dan Coats warned Congress last week that "North Korea is an increasingly grave national security threat to the United States because of its growing missile and nuclear capabilities combined with the aggressive approach of its leader Kim Jong Un ".

DUP leader Arlene Foster said she would meet May on Tuesday while Downing Street said the incumbent premier would "finalize" a deal in the coming week. Labour MP and former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told Sophy Ridge: We have got to keep challenging Theresa May and this deeply dodgy DUP deal.

In Washington , the USA missile defense chief voiced concerns about the pace of development in the North's missile program. North Korea is likely still several years away from a reliable ICBM, but it is checking off a number of key boxes in the research and development process.

Netanyahu made his comments two days after UNRWA said it had discovered part of a tunnel running under two of its schools in the Gaza Strip's Maghazi refugee camp. " In December 2016, UNRWA's mandate was extended for three years by the General Assembly by a large majority ", Gunness told Reuters in an emailed statement .

A stream of Conservative lawmakers walked into 10 Downing St. on Sunday to learn if they had been promoted, demoted or kept in their posts. May's office announced earlier that the top Cabinet ministers would keep their jobs, including Treasury chief Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she assumed Britain still wanted to leave the European Union and talks should start quickly. Theresa May was left eight seats short of an overall majority in the general election this week . The alliance makes some modernising Conservatives uneasy. The deal with the DUP in Northern Ireland is on a " confidence and supply " basis, which means the party would lend its support to block no confidence votes and pass budgets.

Although the SNP remained the largest party in Scotland, it lost 21 seats, including the constituency represented by its former leader Alex Salmond. British Prime Minister Theresa May will cling to power, despite her party's unexpectedly poor performance in the snap general election on Thursday, as the Conservative Party drew on support from their Northern Irish ally, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, who is gay, said on Saturday that she has received assurances from May over gay rights should the Tories strike a deal with DUP . And the unionist party is determined to reform the proposals as part of any agreement to support the Tories on a "confidence and supply basis". "I sought, and to be fair to the prime minister, received a categoric assurance that in talking to the DUP that there would be no suggestion of any rollback on LGBTI rights in ...

May's party had a net loss of 12 seats in Thursday's election, which May called in April in order to bolster her majority status and secure a stronger mandate to begin Brexit negotiations. It said the campaign failed to get "Theresa's positive plan for the future across" or "notice the surge in Labour support, because modern campaigning techniques require ever-narrower targeting of specific voters, and we were not talking to the people who chose to vote for Labour".

The embattled airline said it was cancelling 13 short-haul flights from Heathrow Airport, Europe's busiest, but was aiming to operate a full long-haul schedule from the hub and was operating a full service from Gatwick Airport. The outage was caused by a power surge that affected messaging across the airline's system, and there was no evidence that hackers were to blame, it said.

The small Balkan country will formally become NATO's 29th state in June but Markovic joined the Brussels summit, Trump's first, and a ceremonial opening of the alliance's new headquarters. Leaders offered modest applause at the end of a speech that he began by asking for a moment of silence in remembrance of the victims of Monday's terrorist attack in Manchester, England, that killed 22 and wounded many more.

He said Zaghba was always tracked by Italian intelligence officers while in the country and that United Kingdom authorities were informed. London police said earlier they had recovered a body from the Thames in their search for Xavier Thomas, a 45-year-old missing since Saturday's attack.

May made a "hard Brexit " a center piece of her election campaign. But Johnson said he backed May. Gavin Barwell, a former housing minister, replaces joint chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill. However, she did hail the election campaign as having been very successful for the DUP . The pound hit an eight-week low against the dollar before recovering slightly.

Farmers unions threatened to intensify their agitation if the government did not heed to their requests by next week. The Chief Minister, who was on fast amid the ongoing farmers' crisis in his state, broke the fast by drinking coconut water.

The AGI news agency said Zaghba was intercepted at Bologna airport previous year as he was about to board a plane for Turkey with only a small backpack, his passport and a one-way ticket to Istanbul. Echeverria was last seen lying on the ground near London Bridge after he confronted the assailants with a skateboard. However, BBC reports that two people in Barking , East London , had raised concerns about Butt.

The election of Varadkar is another major step towards equality in the country after legalizing gay marriage in 2015. Varadkar, the son of an Indian-born father and Irish mother, became a doctor before first entering Irish parliament at the age of 27.

Ezadyar was the son of Alam Ezadyar, the first deputy of the upper house of Afghanistan's Parliament. The protesters were voicing anger over a truck bombing on Wednesday in Kabul s diplomatic quarter that killed 90 people and wounded hundreds, the deadliest attack in the city since 2001.

The shooting took place in the Achin district of Afghanistan's Nangahar province, where a security official said the gunman was killed by US troops. The Achin district , where the attack is believed to have occurred , is described as an ISIS and Taliban stronghold. The soldiers were shot in an "inside attack", when a member of the Afghan Security Forces opened fire on the four men.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack that killed at least 80 people and injured over 460 others, but Afghanistan's Intelligence Service says evidence suggests that the Haqqani network , a militant group affiliated with the Taliban , carried out the attack with help from Pakistan.

The DUP is a remarkable organisation - a party slowly moving from its fundamentalist Protestant Paisleyite past, but not at a pace always observable to outsiders. At the time , they had 330 out of 650 seats in the House of Commons . The BBC understands the PM had been warned she faced a leadership challenge on Monday unless she sacked Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.

The lone point the Americans have in Mexico City stands out in a list of losses , and was earned during Mexico's worst period in a decade. Mexico responded swiftly, with Jonathan Dos Santos firing a low shot past Brad Guzan's left-hand post .

Nevertheless, all of them have offered "moral support" to the bandh. Exams conducted by the Karnataka State Secondary Education Examinations Board for D Ed/D.EI and others have also been postponed to June 13. "Additional security will be provided at bus terminals, Metro and railway stations", Sood was quoted as saying by The Times of India . "Reserve police battalion from the City Armed Reserve (CAR), District Armed Reserve (DAR) and Karnataka State Reserve Police personnel will be ...

Further announcements were expected on Saturday. British Prime Minister Theresa May's gamble of holding polls to consolidate her position has backfired, with the Conservative Party losing seats and voters delivering a hung Parliament .